The CinemaxX Opener

Computer Graphics:
Eric Mootz

Music and Sound:
Christian Höfer
of CPP Studios GmbH

Realized:
2001

Duration:
55 seconds

Software (Graphics):
Softimage|XSI 1.5

Hardware (Graphics):
Pentium III 600 MHz

This animation shortfilm was created for a series of events taking place in cinemas.

It took twelve days (and nights) to finish the whole animation, including 2K rendering. As time was really scarce I tried to automatize as many things as possible. The feet of the character automatically bend when touching the ground, so that one need not bother about animating them. This was achieved by using a combination of constraints and expression that would let the feet behave good enough for this type of character. The red “e” is also highly automatized, so that animating the complete shortfilm went rather fast and left me enough time to texture and lighten the scene... and start rendering in time!